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BAN THIS SICK FILTH:- Elite Dangerous

BAN THIS SICK FILTH:- Elite Dangerous

BAN THIS SICK FILTH

ELITE: DANGEROUS

I know, its been a while, but if we go too long without highlighting what a gargantuan mass of offence and bigotry that makes up the modern video game industry, we will never get our “gaming site accreditation” and be included on secret mailing lists involved in mass social programming.And none of us want that.And my oh my what an unholy list of sins Elite Dangerous commits . Still, this is hardly suprising considering the project is entirely controlled by someone with a privilege quotient approaching 200 ( http://www.checkmyprivilege.com )From the very outset, the sexist mentality that permeates the game is overtly demonstrated, there isn’t even an option to play as a woman! Come on Mr Braben, its not 1984 anymore, women can vote now and everything. It’s not like you are setting the game in Saudi Arabia!And thats another thing, the setting. Space. Space is represented as a harsh, cold, hostile environment which will take any opportunity it gets to kill you.So of course its Black.Many bigoted defenders of hate will try and maintain that this is an accurate representation of space, and is in no way meant to be a racist representation of the black community. Well to begin with, check your internalised racism, space is NOT black. Its COLOURLESS!Checkmate Grand Dragon.Also, this is a video game where you are playing as a fearless spaceship captain, what would be so wrong with having space represented by green, or puce? Its fiction after all, they could have space represented in any way they liked, but they intentionally set out to demonise black people.Still not convinced?Well to protect yourself from the dangers of black culture (sorry, “space”) you travel the universe in a variety of spacecraft. Safely protected from the rigours that would beset you in your steel fortress.Of course these fortresses, which are strong enough to deter the dangers of “space”, can still quickly and easily be taken apart with a few blasts of a laser cannon.Which is white.See, right there, the very core of the game is perpetuating the myth that white power is stronger than black power.Disgusting.

RACIST!

But it gets worse. The game encourages you to become a drug smuggler and people trafficker by having some of the most profitable “commodities” being slaves and drugs. Hell even historical simulations about the civil war in the United States of America have the sense to remove any mention of slaves (and confederate flags), and yet here we are having slavery ENDORSED!Doesn’t David Braben realise the influence that games like these have on impressionable young minds? In the same way that the over sexualisation of women, and glorification of violence against women absolutely will create an entire generation of misogynistic domestic abusers, this game is going to create a generation of people traffickers.But it still gets worse.What could be worse than out and out blatant racism?What could be worse than people trafficking and slavery?

Someone's overcompensating.How about RAPE APOLOGY!!!!
Admittedly they have been a bit more insidious with this one though and pretended that they are being all progressive.
As you make your way to the star ports to pick up missions and trade, you are required to obtain consent before guiding your phallic spaceship into the gaping vagina of the station, which is to be applauded until....
“Ship Being Scanned”
Eh? I didn’t give consent to be gaze raped!
That this occurs in a mainstream video game is utterly abhorrent.
And people still deny that we live in a rape culture.
Afterwards the station doesn’t even apologise, or acknowledge that they have done anything wrong, and if you return to the station, they pretend that they never even raped you in the first place.
Its gratuitous offence at the highest level and quite frankly, I’m disgusted.

I hope you've obtained consent!

I’ve even heard reports of Elite Dangerous triggering PTSD http://pcgamesc.com/forum/pc-games/g...angerous/page3
And yet Braben steadfastly refuses to take these serious issues into account in ongoing development.
So its abundantly clear that this game needs to be immediately withdrawn from sale and have its very nature overhauled.
Write to your MP.
Write to your local equalities minister.
Because unless you want to live in a world that permits freedom of expression in videogames you need to do everything you can to
BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

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